War, Democracy, and Frontiers

The longest and most expensive war in U.S. history is the ongoing war in Afghanistan. What impact has the nineteen-year-old conflict had on U.S. democracy? According to Benjamin Hopkins, the Afghanistan war has fundamentally damaged the social and political fabric of the U.S. Hopkins also describes what he calls frontier governmentality, the focus of his latest book. (Encore presentation.) Benjamin Hopkins, “The War That Destroyed America: Afghanistan’s Coming Bill” Critical Asian Studies Benjamin Hopkins, Ruling the Savage Periphery: Frontier Governance and the Making of the Modern State Harvard University Press, 2020 The post War, Democracy, and Frontiers appeared first on KPFA.